Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 17:30 schrieb Neil Conway:
>> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> The new uuid type is lacking documentation.
>> We had also talked about including some UUID generation functionality in
>> 8.3, but it should be okay to leave that for 8.4.
>
> The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as
> they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance. I'm not
> sure how we wanted to solve that, but certainly leaving the uuid type with
> *no* method to generate one is pretty poor.

Actually, I would say that not having the ability to generate a UUID is
just fine. Most languages, have the ability to generate them per their
particular platforms. Let's leave it to them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>

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